The Government has doubled the housebuilding target for Stockport, weakened the protections on a third of our precious green belt, and is forcing the Council through Ministerial Directives and threats to adopt a Local Plan which will let developers target green belt first.
We oppose this government’s ‘developers charter’ and need your voice. Do you agree with us that the green spaces that make our area special need to be preserved, and new housing should first be built on brownfield sites, after the infrastructure is provided with schools, improved transport, and GP places guaranteed? Help us send a message to Government and make Labour listen to local people.
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Do you agree with us that the green belt needs to be preserved, brownfield sites prioritised, and schools, transport, and GP places guaranteed?
Prospective Parliamentary Candidate and local councillor, Antony Wood, took a hands-on approach to crime prevention on Saturday night, walking the beat with Police in Dedworth, part of which is in his Clewer South Ward. The local Councillor joined Officers WPC Christina Beringer and Sergeant Andy Fenton as they dealt with several incidents during the night.
Commenting on reports that the drinks industry will be forced to pay towards policing town centres when 24-hour drinking is introduced,
Serious health and safety problems at the Roding Centre are delaying the Parish Council's attempt to take over management. Unless they can be resolved, it will not be able to obtain essential insurance cover. The possibility of the presence of asbestos in the building is another anxiety.
"The Adult and Community Care Committee kept hearing about poor service caused by staffing problems," County Councillor Diana Smith explained. "So it set up a task group to look at Recruitment and Retention. Proper statistics were hard to come by. We eventually got figures for the reported high vacancy rates in 'front line' teams, from 18% among the essential Home Based Care staff to 31% of highly-skilled Occupational Therapists. We heard of one team of Occupational Therapists entirely consisting of stand-ins. Looked at in purely economic terms, terms the Conservative Executive understands, we found under-staffing led to a big bill for agency staff, over 40% of Surrey's total. The costs in human terms are don't get counted, but they include de facto rationing of care for the people who need it, lack of continuity of care, and stress for staff. Sickness rates are higher among Adults and Community Care staff than in any other Surrey service."
A ST Margaret's Hospital worker has spoken out against bus service cutbacks which leave him with a three-mile trek home after work.
Scepticism, bureaucrats, a proposed Constitution, not to mention bendy cucumbers, are all associated with the European Union.
